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		<title>Blogging by E-mail in Ethiopia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been thinking about the challenges of blogging in Ethiopia &#8211; and the best solution I can come up with is to set up a Posterous blog to let me post by e-mail. I had originally chosen a very light WordPress theme for this blog, but I think even that will be too difficult. Logging&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelitobarski.eu/blogging-by-e-mail-in-ethiopia/</link>
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		<title>Democracy in the EU &#8211; Part Two: Two Pillars</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to the second part in my series examing democracy in the EU. Last time, I attempted to define the &#8220;democratic deficit&#8221; &#8211; and looked a bit at the history of the phrase. In this post I will continue by exploring the two pillars of democracy: popular and constitutional. Again, apologies for the &#8220;dry&#8221; nature&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelitobarski.eu/democracy-in-the-eu-part-2/</link>
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		<title>Democracy in the EU &#8211; Part One: The Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So just what is this term “democratic deficit” that everyone uses when they talk about the EU? I&#8217;m going to publish a series of posts examining democracy in the EU &#8211; starting with a look at the term itself. The content will mostly come from an essay I&#8217;m working on, so apologies if the material&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelitobarski.eu/democracy-in-the-eu-part-1/</link>
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		<title>EUFOR &#8211; Très Fort!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2006, there was a European Union Force (EUFOR) deployment in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in support of the United Nations election-monitoring mission. To reassure the Congolese that EUFOR came in peace, the EU commissioned a 5 minute video which was broadcast on national television in the DRC. The video has to be&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>A Remarkable Weekend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What an exhausting, confusing, chaotic, exciting, unexpected, depressing, remarkable weekend. For the last several weeks, EU leaders have been struggling to get ahead of the story. Instead of leading, they have been reacting to events in the financial markets (and reacting slowly). Every time they thought they had put enough money on the table to&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelitobarski.eu/a-remarkable-weekend/</link>
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		<title>My Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My Europe is a compromise. Politics at the EU level is consensus politics, done through bargaining, horse-trading, lowest-common-demoninator agreements and backroom deals. That is why there can never be a &#8220;United States of Europe&#8221; and why federalism in Europe will never work; without a common &#8220;European nation,&#8221; political leaders are forced to struggle for compromises&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelitobarski.eu/my-europe/</link>
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		<title>Downsizing for Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m in the process of downsizing my blog, in preparation for my trip to Africa. I had originally wanted to make my site as multimedia-rich as I could, with lashings of audiovisual material. That plan, however, was cooked up before I saw the internet statistics for Ethiopia. There are only 360&#8217;000 internet users in Ethiopia,&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelitobarski.eu/downsizing-for-africa/</link>
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		<title>Tory MEP Agrees Gays Aren&#8217;t Normal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does David Cameron even have a clue what his MEPs are up to in the European Parliament? Last week Philip Lardner was suspended from the Conservative Party for writing that homosexuality was not &#8220;normal&#8221; &#8211; the official party line being that Lardner&#8217;s views had &#8220;no place in the modern Conservative party&#8221; and that they were&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelitobarski.eu/tory-mep-agrees-gays-are-not-norma/</link>
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		<title>UK Bureaucrats Cosy up to Tories</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a miserable day in Trento today. It&#8217;s cold, raining and the skies are overcast. But I&#8217;m still smiling, because the wife&#8217;s back with me in Italy after doing research for a couple of months at the University of Bath. David Cameron is also no doubt smiling today, because his party has possibly just dodged&#8230;]]></description>
		<link>http://www.joelitobarski.eu/uk-bureaucrats-cosy-up-to-tories/</link>
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		<title>A Snapshot of Europe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Let’s take a snapshot of Europe as it is today. Imagine yourself as an eagle, high up in the clouds, your view obscured in all directions by swirls of pillowy fog. You can’t tell up from down, left from right, backwards from frontwards; gliding through an ocean of seething grey. Then… There! There – a&#8230;]]></description>
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